The amount of code that data scientists have to write as part of their job varies greatly across organizations and projects, and so does its level of complexity. Regardless of where you land on the programming-intensity spectrum, though, it’s hard to argue against the value of adding depth and range…

Expanding cities and a shrinking countryside — Are you a city dweller? You’re not alone! Our global urban population has reached 56% and is expected to soar to 70% of all people by 2050.¹ With our world’s human population to reach 9.7 billion by then,² this shift in where we live will have a profound effect on…

A side project can be a perfect vehicle for active learning, but we know that many data scientists struggle to carve out the time to start one. …

Stay informed of the rules and details around publishing on TDS — Towards Data Science Inc. is a corporation registered in Canada, where our editorial team is based. We’re a publication that leverages the Medium platform to empower thousands of data professionals to share their ideas, knowledge, and expertise. TDS has grown and evolved a lot over time, and the terms that…

Our approach to collecting, storing, and using personal information contributors provide us — Towards Data Science Inc. is a corporation registered in Canada, where our editorial team is based. We’re a publication that leverages the Medium platform to bring together data professionals who want to share and expand their knowledge of data science, machine learning, and related topics. As TDS has evolved a…

With so much of our collective attention still focused on chatbots, it’s easy to forget just how vast and diverse the field of natural language processing (NLP) actually is. From translation to text classification and beyond, data scientists and machine learning engineers have worked (and are still working) on exciting…

How data scientists approach causal inference — In a recent Author Spotlight Q&A, Matteo Courthoud reflected on the growing importance of making robust predictions, whether one works in industry or in academia: I think in the future, causal inference will become more and more central and we will see a convergence between the theoretical approach from the…

It’s almost March, which means that most people who made a solemn New Year’s resolution a mere two months ago have likely already abandoned it. (That’s what both Google and ChatGPT tell us, anyway.) Is it a reason to despair? On the contrary—in the absence of calendar-based (read: externally imposed…

Welcome to the 100th edition of the Variable! We usually devote each edition of our newsletter to a specific topic or set of questions; to mark this special occasion, though, we opted for a different approach. Every week, we leave fantastic TDS posts out of the Variable simply because they…